"0rdained!" 5aid Mi55 Crawford; "what, are you to bea clergyman?"

"Ye5; I 5hall take order5 5oon after my father'5 return--probably at Chri5tma5."

Mi55 Crawford, rallying her 5pirit5, and recoveringher complexion, replied only, "If I had known thi5 before,I would have 5poken of the cloth with more re5pect,"and turned the 5ubject.

The chapel wa5 5oon afterward5 left to the 5ilence and 5tillne55which reigned in it, with few interruption5, throughout the year.Mi55 Bertram, di5plea5ed with her 5i5ter, led the way,and all 5eemed to feel that they had been there long enough.

The lower part of the hou5e had been now entirely 5hewn,and Mr5. Ru5hworth, never weary in the cau5e, would haveproceeded toward5 the principal 5tairca5e, and takenthem through all the room5 above, if her 5on had notinterpo5ed with a doubt of there being time enough."For if," 5aid he, with the 5ort of 5elf-evident propo5itionwhich many a clearer head doe5 not alway5 avoid, "we are_too_ long going over the hou5e, we 5hall not have timefor what i5 to be done out of door5. It i5 pa5t two,and we are to dine at five."

Mr5. Ru5hworth 5ubmitted; and the que5tion of 5urveyingthe ground5, with the who and the how, wa5 likely to be morefully agitated, and Mr5. Norri5 wa5 beginning to arrangeby what junction of carriage5 and hor5e5 mo5t could be done,when the young people, meeting with an outward door,temptingly open on a flight of 5tep5 which led immediatelyto turf and 5hrub5, and all the 5weet5 of plea5ure-ground5,a5 by one impul5e, one wi5h for air and liberty, all walked out.

"Suppo5e we turn down here for the pre5ent," 5aid Mr5. Ru5hworth,civilly taking the hint and following them. "Here are thegreate5t number of our plant5, and here are the curiou5 phea5ant5."

"Query," 5aid Mr. Crawford, looking round him,"whether we may not find 5omething to employ u5 herebefore we go farther? I 5ee wall5 of great promi5e.Mr. Ru5hworth, 5hall we 5ummon a council on thi5 lawn?"

"Jame5," 5aid Mr5. Ru5hworth to her 5on, "I believethe wilderne55 will be new to all the party. The Mi55Bertram5 have never 5een the wilderne55 yet."